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Kindred weaknesses induce friendships as often as kindred virtues.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it.
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Mistake Repeat Secret Sound
It is some compensation for great evils, that they enforce great lessons.
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Compensation Evil Greatness Lesson
In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at.
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Fire Politics Position Professional Reward
Four sweet lips, two pure souls, and one undying affection, – these are love’s pretty ingredients for a kiss.
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Affection Death Kiss Lips Purity Soul
We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
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Fear Ignorance Ourselves
A great destiny needs a generous diet. What can be expected of a people that live on macaroni!
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Destiny Funny Greatness Live People
The most brilliant flashes of wit come from a clouded mind, as lightning leaps only from an obscure firmament.
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Brilliant Intelligence Light Mindset
Economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.
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Economy Poor Rich
A book should be luminous not voluminous.
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Book Knowledge Value
It is with charity as with money–the more we stand in need of it, the less we have to give away.
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Charity Money Stand
We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.
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Affection Beautiful Best Ourselves
Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.
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Grave Soul Yourself
Weakness ineffectually seeks to disguise itself,–like a drunken man trying to show how sober he is.
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Disguise Seek Sober Weakness
Men, like musical instruments, seem made to be played upon.
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Instrument Man Music Play
It is our relation to circumstances that determines their influence upon us.
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Circumstance Determination Influence Relationship
Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.
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Genius Hands Observation Talent Writing
To vindicate the sanctity of human life by taking it is an outrage upon reason. The spectacle of a human being dangling at the end of a gallows-rope is a degradation of humanity.
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Discrimination Human Humanity Life Reason
Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.
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Culture Run Simplicity
Few minds wear out; more rust out.
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Mindset One Liner
A mother is the best friend God ever gave.
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Family Friendship God Mom
Wit never appears to greater advantage than when it is successfully exerted to relieve from a dilemma, palliate a deficiency, or cover a retreat.
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Dilemma Greatness Intelligence Relieve Smart Success
Discretion is the salt, and fancy the sugar of life; the one preserves, the other sweetens it.
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Life Oneself Perseverance Sweet
Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.
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Blood Grief Tear
Truth, like the sun, submits to be obscured; but, like the sun, only for a time.
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Sun Time Truth
There are seaons when our passions have slept so long that we know not whether they still exist in us. So does flax forget that it is combustible when the fire is away from it.
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Existence Fire Forget Passion Season
Winter is the night of vegetation.
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Night Vegetation Winter
The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it.
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Beautiful Himself See Sight

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